Hi!
Hi!
I want to buy soon a dvb-s card with mpeg hardware encoding and tv out... I think it would be a fujitsu-siemens compatible witv rev. 1.5 or 1.6
Can freevo use them to record?
Mplayer / mencoder support DVB so, yes, you can do this with slight configuration changes. I have been experimenting with DVB-S under Freevo for a while now and think it best to rely on 3rd party applications to handle the complex DVB aspects.
For the most part I have been experimenting with using Freevo and VDR together. I had modified VDR to open the dvr0 device and simply had VDR in my VCR_CMD for a while, then I would read from the dvr device much like ivtv recording is done through Freevo. This was kinda hackish but let me record well enough. You could also use szap to do the same but this was fun. :) Some more fun was writing a python module out of vdr but I didn't get around to actually using it much.
So now I am using the VDR streamdev plugin for Freevo to stream from. I cooked up a small python script to generate an FXD file to include in VIDEO_ITEMS. The FXD is based on a VDR channels.conf file. With this I can access all the streams through Freevo's video menu.
The channels from VDR are real TV channels and I have XMLTV listings for them so I'd really like to have them in my tv guide. Next I will be adding support for http/web streams as real tv channels (TV_CHANNELS or VIDEO_GROUPS entries). Basicly if the tunerid starts with 'http://' or perhaps 'rtsp://' Freevo will stream from the URL instead of using the tv tuner.
Since VDR streamdev has its own VTP (Video Transport Protocol) in addition to an http interface I will be working on a real streamdev-vtp plugin for Freevo which should eliminate annoying wait between channel changes while mplayer re-buffers the stream. Also I'd like to note that I am able to record from VDR streamdev right now by doing mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile blah.mpeg http://streamdev_url/PS/channel_number.
Can freevo use the tv-out on these cards for output on tv?
Sorry, no. SDL would need a video output plugin for DVB tv-out and it wouldn't work too efficiently since everything would need to be encoded to mpeg(2?). The OSD of the DVB card's tv-out doesn't have enough memory to support a decent display, which is why VDR doesn't have fancy menus.
Enough rambling from me. :) -Rob
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